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1978 · C.E.A.

Lucky Shot

Indoor pool or snooker hall, green-topped billiards table, brown wooden floorboards, panelled magenta and red wall and crowd of small blue-grey background figures.

Year
1978
Maker
C.E.A.
Type
Solid state
Display
Alphanumeric
Players
1

Made by

Art
Michele "Mike" Martinelli

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Lucky Shot backglass

Backglass

  • red
  • blue
  • yellow
  • magenta

Fingerprint: Enormous red "LUCKY SHOT" logo tilted, red-haired man laughing, blonde woman alarmed, bearded man shouting at blue machine panel, pool hall setting, gold and red stars.

Distinctive

The enormous red LUCKY SHOT logo with cream inner bevel and blue drop shadow, tilted across a magenta panelled wall, is the single most memorable element. Second, the pair of extravagantly dressed figures at right: a red-haired man in an open white shirt laughing with arms up, and a blonde woman in a red-and-white striped top with a wide yellow belt raising both hands in alarm. A third oddity is the bearded man in a red cap at upper right whose mouth is drawn as a wide-open black oval as he shouts beside a blue machine panel with a white display window and orange and blue round buttons. Fourth, the gold star and gold cone and bell shapes on white cloud-like forms across the bottom-right corner, overlaid with a scatter of red five-pointed stars.

Setting

  • Indoor pool or snooker hall
  • Green-topped billiards table
  • Brown wooden floorboards
  • Panelled magenta and red wall
  • Crowd of small blue-grey background figures

Symbols

  • Red five-pointed stars scattered at bottom right
  • Gold five-pointed star
  • Gold cones and bell shapes
  • Billiard balls
  • Red diamond card-suit motifs on the bonus panel
  • Orange and blue round machine buttons

Lettering

  • Tall condensed sans-serif capitals, red fill with cream inner highlight and dark blue drop shadow; smaller block numerals in the score panels.

Themes

  • Billiards
  • Pool hall
  • Amusement
  • Bonus
  • Showbiz

Title on it

  • Lucky shot

Text on it

  • LUCKY SHOT
  • BALL IN PLAY
  • 10 000 000
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 3
  • 2
  • BON
  • US
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Young fair-haired woman centre-left, coral-pink crop top, blue jeans, white shoes, holding a black ball-shaped object at hip level, smiling.
Man Crouching man in a red cap and pink short-sleeve shirt, blue trousers, holding a black ball-shaped object in his right hand, grinning.
Man Red-haired man in an open white shirt with yellow cuff, centre, arms raised and spread, huge open-mouthed grin.
Woman Blonde woman at right in a red-and-white horizontally striped top, wide yellow belt, pale blue spotted skirt, both hands raised, red lipstick, looking towards the viewer.
Man Bearded man in a red cap and pink shirt at upper right, arms outstretched, mouth a wide-open black oval, shouting.
Man Small brown-haired man in a brown suit in the background left, facing forward.
Man Small pale figure in a brimmed hat and coat in the background centre, near a doorway.
Other Cluster of small blue-grey silhouettes of onlookers and players in the background centre.
Other Blue-grey figure slumped at the left end of the billiards table.
Other Bench of dark black balls beneath the billiards table.
Full description

Illuminated rectangular backglass painted in flat, bold comic-book style with heavy black outlines. The huge title LUCKY SHOT spans the upper centre in tall condensed red capitals with a pale cream inner highlight and a deep blue drop shadow, against a magenta-to-red panelled wall. Above the title, a red ceiling fan of score panels carries the numerals 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 000 000 in yellow. Five people are drawn: a fair-haired young woman in a coral crop top and blue jeans holding a black ball-shaped object, a crouching man in a red cap and pink shirt clutching one, a grinning red-haired man in an open white shirt with both arms flung up, and a blonde woman in a red-and-white striped top, wide yellow belt and pale blue spotted skirt waving both hands. A bearded man in a red cap with a wide open mouth stands at upper right behind a blue machine panel. The setting is a pool or snooker hall: a green-topped table with rails, small blue-grey figures of onlookers and a bowler-hatted man in the background, brown floorboards, and a bench of dark balls. Red, yellow, blue and magenta dominate. A lit score window sits top right and another white window lower left.